CONCACAF (soccer)

Why isn't El Tri better?

article doesn't answer the question

the answer to the question is http://www.emotty.com/images/emoticons/907.png

lol espn not mentioning the last two GC finals in this piece
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi07Yg4thQw&feature=player_embedded

match is on Univision for those without cable

HOLY BALLS

*FEVERISHLY FLIPS TO UNIVISION*

:X

whoa

well that was inevitable

bornstein you worthless twat.

mexico's strikes are sick + our defense is the worst

mexico shitting all over the left side of USA's defense.

It should be 5-2 in Mexico's favor.

how is it that bornstein is still on the national team -- idgi

marquez injured. what a bummer for my red bulls!

mexico should have 1m goals right now

the back 4 is fucking embarrassing. bring in maurice edu to stop the bleeding for god sake's.

mexico should have 1m goals right now

― ☂ (max), Saturday, June 25, 2011 9:49 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this estimation is approximate

and low.

ive calculated it, mexico should have exactly 2.3m goals at this point in the game

does landon donavan have the most annoying voice in all of sports

:-/

Oh man

uueh...good game at least

Bradley out? This feels somehow like the end of an era, and when does soldiering on past that point ever yield results.

The look on his face at the end of the game was of a man who knows he should be packing his things. US was patchy throughout this tournament.

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how is it that bornstein is still on the national team -- idgi

― dirty deathdrone boys (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 25, 2011 8:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

This. As soon as he came in I knew we were fucked.

I do like that Bradley updated his formation a bit but the D was just not up to task from the start.

Also Pablo Barrera upped his stock big time tonight, as did M. Bradley imo.

VIVA MEXICO!

was watching the game in a bar in Cuernavaca....the Dos Santos goal was sublime

Mexico deserved it, they were better - still hoped the US could eke out a lucky win after going up goals while fending off constant Mexican attacks

http://the-alamo-san-antonio.com/diorama/tobeys-battle-of-the-alamo-big.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/astraightupclowning.gif

don't know why that's so small

http://mlkshk.com/r/3YP9

lichaj should've suarez'd it imo

stupid no hands rule

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/sports/2011/06/26/tim-howard-tirade-on-spanish-post-game-ceremony-after-mexico-storms-back-to/#ixzz1QUredulT

Howard cursed tournament officials because the post-game ceremonies were in Spanish.

sore loser?

sore racist more like

yeah he seems like a twat

blame it on the tourettes

anyway, this scanned like the total truth to me http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6707994/hard-lessons

Yeah that's a good piece, I guess Simmons has already realized that the other guy who was brought in as designated Grantland soccer writer is awful.

guys howard has tourette's, way to be insensitive

Yes. That was pointed out

shit, scanned too fast

I don't think he actually has the sweary kind anyway.

omg hipster runnoff carles is posting on that grantland blog now

About soccer? Overall the site is horrible - there's a thread on ILHoops - and their Champions League final piece was no exception, so I was surprised the USMNT story linked above was not bad.

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/6708423/do-love-much-love-chicharito-adu-adu

“I made some comments after the Gold Cup Final that have caused some controversy. I would like to clarify a few points about my comments," Howard said. " First, I would like to apologize for my language. I am the father of young children, and I certainly do not believe profanity is appropriate in public comments. I was caught up in the heat of the moment."

"I also want to stress that I have no problem whatsoever with the use of the Spanish language at international competitions held in the US," Howard said. "I have nothing but great respect for other cultures, and in this case for the Mexican national team and its supporters. On that night, they played a great game and deserved their win. I play in international matches all the time, and multiple languages are used at almost all of them.

"The point I made, which I stand by, is that it is inappropriate and disrespectful for the post-match ceremonies to take place primarily in the language of only one of the participating teams," Howard said. "In any important international match with post-game ceremonies, you would hope the tournament organizers would make sure that the primary language of each participating team is used so that the participants can understand what is being said. To fail to do this is, in my opinion, disrespectful to the players. When this occurs on your home soil, it is particularly insulting.
"We, as American players, were asked to participate in a post-game ceremony at a match in Los Angeles and we are standing there trying to show good sportsmanship and yet the ceremony is going on and we are just looking at one another struggling to understand a word," Howard said. "It was, to be honest, humiliating, and I firmly believe the tournament organizers should not have put us in that position.”